Times have changed. Read the New Testament. That law is no longer followed.
The penalty for all sin used to be death (it wasn't just for homosexuals) and it only applied to Jews. That law changed and is no longer valid because Jesus will wash away our sins if we believe in Him.
Why are they attacking a code that is no longer followed?
2007-10-02 22:36:59 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Then why do people still blow up the abortion clinics? According to your logics, the law to kill a murderer is not to be applied anymore.
Puhleaseeeeee!
2007-10-02 22:42:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 0⤋
The main reason why Atheists attack the bible for saying gays should die, is because a large number of Christians still do beleive this law to be just. Only the most desperate Athiest will ever condem the Christian bible on the grounds that it approves stoning adulterers because modern day Christians aren't prone to carrying out such an act.
However, a large number of Christians still do condemn homosexuality as "abomination", but ignore many of the other rules (such as the dietary laws, etc) made obsolete by the coming of Jesus Christ. As a result, the Old Testament views on homosexuality are dragged up by Athiests because they were dragged up first by modern day Christians.
2007-10-02 22:46:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The law saying that gays must dies is in the Old Testament. So, how do you decide which parts of the Old Testament to follow? The 10 Commandments are in the Old Testament. Do they apply only to the Jews as well?
2007-10-02 23:07:27 · answer #3 · answered by qxzqxzqxz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How many fundamentalist Christians have I seen who use Leviticus to support their homophobia? Is Leviticus not part of the Old Testament anymore? No one told me...
If this code is no longer followed, stop beating people over the head with it. Also, I'm starting a countdown until the next time you argue something with OT law. Then I will kindly remind you of this question.
2007-10-06 18:53:55 · answer #4 · answered by v35322 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When was the last time you heard about a Jew stoning his daughter, a gay man or anyone else? The state of Israel doesn't have a death penalty.
Judaism has done just fine with making these adjustments as time and situation changes. We have no need for a child sacrifice, even if it was a one-time bargain.
2007-10-02 23:14:57 · answer #5 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OK then, so the 'Kill Gays they are abominations" Old Testament is much like Mein Kampf inasmuch as it is :
A. No longer applicable or adhered to in any way?
or could it possibly be that:
B. I hear it quoted AT me and ABOUT me ALL the time?
Can you guess?
But I'm supposed to be OK now with just being likened to criminals, rapist, adulterers, murderers etc. I should just be OK with that right? I mean, it's not like I get spat at, or threatening phone calls, or sexual harrassment, or godhatesfags marches. WHY would I attack the Bible for criminalizing me in the first place... errr...
2007-10-02 22:44:48 · answer #6 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I suppose the atheists see people like Rev. Phelps, and listen to the rants that many Christian preachers make against gay people. You can't really blame them for dissing the bible if they hear so much vitriol spewed out. Some people believe that code should be followed. I'm glad they don't write the laws. Bad enough that gays are tortured and killed in places like Iran.
2007-10-02 22:48:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sensitive about the fact that the Bible calls homosexuality a sin - in the same category as other sins against the body - fornication and adultery. I guess, from the herculean attempts to show the Bible is wrong about this, that some feathers are ruffled. Most homosexuals couldn't care less about what the Bible says.
There is no evidence to support a genetic origin for homosexuality.
2007-10-02 22:44:04 · answer #8 · answered by cheir 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
You're kinda preaching to the choir here. It's actually the Christians that use OT passages like Leviticus 18.22 as ammunition against homosexuality that you should direct this at, not the people that criticise them for doing so.
You're basically assuming that we're arguing for no reason which is simply not true.
2007-10-02 23:00:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't attack the bible for that, I don't attack any storybooks, which is what I believe the bible is.
I do "attack" those who follow that book, because I think it dangerous to believe what it says. And there are christians out there who'd love gays to be murdered just for their sexuality. Why? Because they're fanatics that believe everything the bible claims is true.
That is what I am weary of; not really the book itself.
2007-10-02 22:49:44 · answer #10 · answered by Maria - Godmother II of the AM 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I certainly don't claim to be a scholar when it comes to the bible or it's passages. Could you please tell me what exactly the bible DOES say about homosexuality now that it has been "revised"? From my point of view (I am not an atheist nor a religious zealot but more of a spiritual person) we don't have the right to judge anyone based on anything. How dare anyone say that homosexuals are less "human" or "sinners" when there is already plenty of evidence to support that homosexuality is genetic.
2007-10-02 22:43:22 · answer #11 · answered by LadyLeatherneck 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋